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Across Lady Gregory's historical plays, Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), Dervorgilla (1907), and Grania (1912), there runs the common trope of a love triangle between a personified Ireland, the Irish Man, and the Irish Woman. The repeated victimization of the Irish Woman as jilted lovers and treasonous adulterers, who place themselves in competition with their motherland for male affection, reduces them to apolitical figures in individualistic pursuits of romantic fulfillment. Such a formulation of female desire—as a purely individualistic agenda utterly incompatible with the nationalist cause—perpetuates ancient notions of apolitical womanhood, and calcifies the dichotomy between the realms of the masculine public and the feminine private. Notwithstanding the many feminist interpretations of the life and works of Lady Gregory, this essay critiques the extreme degree to which she isolates the two spheres from each other along the gender binary, denying any intersectionality between the two in Irishwomen's lives, and thus, excising them of all civic consciousness and political interiority. Such heroines deny historical Irishwomen of nationalist and feminist agency, when in reality, they actively sought to liberate both Ireland and the women of Ireland in the public spaces they shared with male peers.

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Ⅰ. Introduction
Ⅱ. Cathleen Crashed My Wedding
Ⅲ. My Man Launched the Ships of England So I'm Just Praying These Brits Are Nice
Ⅳ. I’d Rather Marry an English King Than Third Wheel with Two Irishmen
Ⅴ. Re-examining Irish Women's Nationalism
Ⅵ. Conclusion
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• Yoon Chung [ Graduate Student, Yonsei University ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

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  1738-4052

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  1967~2026

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  KCI 등재

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  KDC 840 DDC 820